Los Angeles Fashion Week ended with a bang and plenty of glitz and glamour at L.A. Fashion Weekend’s final showcase, which was produced by Mikey Koffman and held at Sunset Gower Studios on March 18. Th...

With buyers lining the front row, Los Angeles–based XCVI opened its Fall ’12 runway show with a rousing performance by violinist Jennifer Spingola, who regaled the crowd while navigating the runway in s...

The March 10 installation showcasing the Elaine Marie label during Concept L.A. Fashion Week at the Ace Gallery took a page from the 1970s fashion book by featuring high-waisted bell-bottom plaid pant...

Project Ethos hosted its annual fashion show and concert March 13, celebrating 12 up-and-coming designers at Avalon in Hollywood. More than 1,200 guests showed up to catch two runway shows, a performance by L...

American Apparel Inc. celebrated its 15th anniversary on March 29, and State Assemblyman Gil Cedillo (D–Los Angeles) and Los Angeles City Councilmember Jos&eacute; Huizar, who each represent American Appa...

Michele BohbotIt seems that everyone is into yoga these days. Even your grandmother.And a lot of smart apparel makers are following this trend by branching out into yoga wear. The latest to join the yoga apparel club is...

The top-three dresses on the runway at FIDM (Brandon Clark/abimages)Last summer, Los Angeles designer Karen Kane issued a challenge to students in the third-year advanced fashion design course at the Fashion Institute of Design Merchandising. The students were to...

We were going to bake you cupcakes to celebrate, but we didn't have the time to make enough for all 6,000 employees. That's a lot of cupcakes! Several California officials—including State Assemblyman Gil Cedillo and Los Angeles City Councilmember José...

Elkin’s Fall collection and female empowerment were the focus of Gen Art’s event last night at Le Petit Ermitage. This season Gen Art selected Elkin as its New Garde Los Angeles' honoree and it was a fabulous evening indeed. The event, which was held in...

Kim KardashianValentino has a lot to celebrate.The Italian fashion house is marking 50 years in business. In addition, it opened its new flagship store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills last night. Anyone who is anyone...

Monday, March 26

Los Angeles vertical manufacturer American Apparel has solar panels on its factory roof, which generate 150 kilowatts of power and provide up to 15 percent of the company’s energy needs. According to the company, the solar panels need to be washed every...

This cocktail party is a little loud.Can you stand another “Mad Men” fashion update? Of COURSE you can! After last night’s season 5 kickoff, we now know the year is 1966 and at least one character was wearing a minidress—a...

Los Angeles–based menswear line Madisonpark Collective answered that question with a resounding “Yes!” at its March 14 runway show at Style Fashion Week La at Vibiana in downtown Los Angeles. The runway show featured several...

Intermix founder Khajak Keledjian in front of his new Brentwood boutique.Los Angeles’ exclusive Brentwood neighborhood is so many things, but it was never a magnet for fashion retail. That reputation will change in the next month.The...

Ariella Seltzer and Christina Ingalls worked together to design a “Crystal Moon” costume for the Night portion of the Otis fashion show. Graduating fashion students from Otis College of Art and Design have been busy preparing for their final year-end...

Have you seen Madonna’s new “Girl Gone Wild” video yet? She looks “Brigitte Bardot” fab and “Truth or Dare” fit. But I think this one’s about the fellas. The video features Ukrainian dance/pop troupe Kazaky, and,...

This season, designer Jonny Cota took an unlikely urban-youth turn for the creation of his Skingraft collection. “I kept being inspired by the idea of Japanese Gothic hip-hop. What would that look like?” Cota said.

Style Fashion Week LA closed its five-day run of events at Vibiana with the Go Red for Women Celebrity Red Dress Fashion Show, held March 16. The show benefited the American Heart Association’s Go Red...

Anh Volcek is not your typical designer. Her materials include plastic and glass, and her work place is comprised of a ventilated space and a mask. Being fascinated with innovation and advances with fabrics and technology, she incorporated unusual...

At The Echo nightclub on March 15, host Clint Catalyst said that the LA Independent Fashion Consortium was a showcase for an “alternative” breed of clothing that is locally grown. Indeed, there was a visible h...

Madisonpark Collective debuted its men’s Summer and Fall collections on the runway at Style Fashion Week LA at Vibiana. Male dancers opened the show, giving an action-packed energy to the runway prese...

For her Fall 2012 presentation, Sue Wong hosted a champagne lunch and presentation at her Los Angeles atelier. “This is my place of business. This is where I thrive. This is where I do all my creative work,” Wong said. “I really like to invit...

Kevin Willis manufactures his Willis & Walker suits and sportswear in the United States and overseas, but for the big-and-tall collection’s premium denim, the pro athlete turned fashion designer headed fo...

LA Fashion Weekend at Sunset Gower Studios continued its three-day event on March 17, kicking off with producer Mikey Koffman greeting guests and showcasing her rendition of style with a video of clo...

In a spare loft-like space in downtown Los Angeles, HOWL Clothing, Grayson Mitchell Kelly and First Communion made an earnest presentation. The invite-only event on March 16 was filled with art school–type sp...

A look from the GoGo Gear collectionMake sure you tune in tomorrow night (March 23) to watch ABC's "Shark Tank."One of our very own Los Angeles apparel company owners, Arlene Battishill of GoGo Gear, and her partner,...

Tuesday, March 20

If you're traveling through Russia and see a few billboards that look familiar, you have Cherokee to thank for that.This week, the California company entered the Russian market. Cherokee branded apparel for men, women...

Sunday, March 18

Volker Corell offers a toast to designer Sue Wong after her Fall '12 presentation at her studio. Tonight is the last night of Los Angeles Fashion Week with the finale show at L.A. Fashion Weekend at Sunset Gower. When our photographer Volker Corell...

Designer Marcus Paglialonga was speaking to his inner gypsy when he created his Fall 2012 collection, which mixed a bohemian vibe with rock ’n’ roll glam. It was seen on the runway March 10 during Concept L.A. Fashion Week at the Ace Gallery, Los Angeles.

For designer Devin Carlson, Los Angeles Fashion Week is familiar territory. Typically, he shows his Fremont collection of men’s and women’s contemporary apparel. But for his March 9 show at Concept L.A. Fashion Week a...

It’s Los Angeles Fashion Week, and fashion eventsare popping up all over the region. Erica Thomas produced her Spring 2012 trunk show at Harper’s , her leading boutique in Corona del Mar in South Orange County. Swim was a focus at the....

Phyllis Navidad and GGeisha of DrippedFar from the bright lights of Los Angeles Fashion Week,GGeisha and Phillis Navidad staked claim to the city’s fashion underground.They produced the first fashion week edition of Dripped, their fashion party and trunk show on March 15. It...

“Hot Mess” was the name of Jen Awad’s Fall 2012 collection, exhibited at Concept L.A. Fashion Week at Ace Gallery Los Angeles March 10, but funky humor aside, it was the most sophisticated collection of the emerging designer’s career.

Los Angeles’ fashion industry stepped out on March 8 to celebrate Fashion Group International’s “Meet the Designer and the Muse” fund-raiser. Models, muses and fashion lovers filled Ace Gallery to take in the designers’ creations and their...

Designers Sequoia Emmanuelle and Gita Salem looked west for inspiration for their Fall 2012 S&G collection, shown March 9 at Concept L.A. Fashion Week at Ace Gallery Los Angeles. But instead of hitching the collection to the cl...

Will Cheng (pictured left) and Kaelen McCrane (right) are very normal guys. “I love looking at this stuff,” said Will of the rare loud vintage for sale at What Goes Around Comes Around on March 13, where they showed their line, The West is Dead. “But I...

“A: This is going to be the weirdest wedding ever. D: At least they invited Sad Panda."I’m going to have to create a bookmark tab for shopping snark sites like Regretsy, Anthroparodie and now this tumblr site: Heavy....

Nicholas Kirkwood, Louise Gray, Christopher DeVos and Todd LynnThat is the LONDON show ROOMS have arrived in Los Angeles for LA Market and Fashion Week. The British Fashion Council kicked off the three day brand showcase with Hollywood...

L.A. Fashion Week and L.A. Fashion Market are in full swing and the ApparelNews team is out in force looking for the latest news—and fashion. Our intrepid photographer Volker Corell spotted a gaggle of well-dressed gents at...

We were at the Stop Staring! and Ina Soltani shows at Style Fashion Week LA last night—at the beautiful Vibiana in downtown Los Angeles. Our photographer Volker Corell captured the scene on and off the runway. (Hey! That's me!)The...

The Superdry store in Las VegasThings are changing for the Superdry label, that British brand that use Japanese graphics and vintage Americana to make urban casual clothing.Superdry USA, which is distributed in the...

Monday, March 12

The fifth season of “Mad Men” kicks off on AMC on March 25 and I, for one, can’t wait. When the series began, it was set in 1960 and last season concluded in 1965. No word on where—or, more precisely, when--the show will pick up. The season 5...

Saturday, March 10

Designer Yotam Solomon unveiled the first men’s looks of his career at a March 8 event at the Conga Room nightclub in downtown Los Angeles. Moods of Norway and VBN brands also produced their first runw...

LONG BEACH, Calif.—Ocean freight rates were in a downward spiral last year but will veer slightly upward this year as shipping lines take delivery of a number of large vessels ordered in 2007 and 2008.

Marna Ro is a new, sophisticated yet wearable, contemporary line created for the modern man and woman. The collection, made from premium fabrics, incorporates intricate design details to offer a high-end ...

So you want to be a famous fashion designer? You want millions of Americans to see your imaginative creations?Fear not. There is hope. The people at "Project Runway," the TV show that has designers going...

Five seasons a year, buyers from around the globe flock to the California Market Center (CMC) for Los Angeles Fashion Market, the West Coast’s premier destination for thousands of apparel, gift & lifestyle collections d...

Thursday, March 8

Somebody get Pantone on the phone. There is no pink. I repeat, there is no pink.That alarming (and technically false) information was rattling around the Internet recently after two science reporters Michael Moyer (one of the hosts of NPR’s Radiolab show) and Robert Krulwich (writing for Scientific American)...

Just when retailers thought they had their hands full with the abundance of social media tools already on the market, along comes gamification. No longer just the realm of 20-something males, gaming has...

From left 2 Point Oh! LA founder Kelsi Smith wearing designer Milly, Elle Shapiro of SurviveWeddingSeason.com in Laundry by Shelly Segal and Wendy Bendoni of FashionAsIdentity.com in vest by Norma Kamali. Photo by Felix...

Wednesday, March 7

Just in time for Los Angeles Fashion Week and everything that goes with it. Fashion Group International is having its annual celebration called "Meet the Designer and the Muse."It recognizes some of L.A.'s best designers and...

Retro ad found at Planet Oddity This is why it’s always important to read the care instructions. Emma Barnett happened upon a particularly egregious one while “attempting to tidy up” at home. The care label in her boyfriend’s pants included the usual “machine wash warm,” blah, blah blah instructions...

British retailer Topshop is set to open its first West Coast flagship at The Grove in Los Angeles, kicking off a slew of new additions and changes at the lifestyle center, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.

The award winning Louis Vuitton Island Maison store. Photo courtesy Louis Vuitton and A.R.E.Traveling to Singapore? You'll want to visit the Louis Vuitton Island Maison store. It was honored with the Store of the Year by the Association of...

Thursday, March 1

Here's a chance for up-and-coming models to break into the fashion world.Los Angeles designer Anh Volcek is working with Nyx Models to find women between the ages of 16 to 25 who can model her sophisticated...

"""Kevin Jones discussing the Oscar-winning costumes from "The Artist"I was fortunate enough to snag an invitation to a breakfast and private museum tour hosted by the Fashion Institute of Design Merchandising for members of the international diplomatic corps. The group was visiting Los Angeles on the Obama Administration’s...